The mysterious “sk_run_filter”
An investigation story, where optimizing MySQL performance reveals the most hidden corners of Linux kernel
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iibench (aka the Index Insertion Benchmark) implemented as a sysbench workload Permalink
Our team has reimplemented iibench as a sysbench workload. You can read more about it on the project Github page.
Pedal to the metal or what else can speedup your CPU-bound application?
A story about using huge pages to boost MySQL performance
Adaptive Thread Pool: Improving MySQL Scalability With AI
In our previous blog post we discussed the purpose of a thread pool, various approaches to implementing a thread pool, along with a simulation model describi...
Spinning in the Cloud: How to Fix MySQL 8.0 Log Commit for Containers
If you are running MySQL as a Kubernetes pod or a Docker container, there is a chance you are using CPU quota to limit its resource usage. Which is also typi...
Simulation of thread pool for database server
This is a blog post version of our paper “Simulation of thread pool for database server” that will be published in CEUR Workshop Proceedings. In the article,...